BACKGROUND To qualitatively explore physiotherapy students' perceptions of online e-learning for chronic disease management using a previously developed, innovative and interactive, evidence-based, e-learning package: Rheumatoid Arthritis for Physiotherapists e-Learning (RAP-eL). METHODS Physiotherapy students participated in three focus groups in Perth, Western Australia. Purposive sampling ...

BACKGROUND Standardised patients are used in medical education to expose students to clinical contexts and facilitate transition to clinical practice, and this approach is gaining momentum in physiotherapy programs. Expense and availability of trained standardised patients are factors limiting widespread adoption, and accessing clinical visits with real patients can be challenging. This study a...

BACKGROUND Using simulated learning environments with standardised patients (SPs) provides a way to scaffold the development of skills for patient safety in a low risk environment. There are no data regarding whether adding SP interactions in early years of physiotherapy training improves safe performance on clinical placement. We assessed the feasibility of recruiting and collecting data from ...

BACKGROUND The College of Medicine in Malawi offers an undergraduate physiotherapy programme which started in 2010. The programme aims at training competent physiotherapists who can address the needs of people with disabilities. Therefore it is important to ensure that the perceptions of physiotherapy students towards disability are appropriate. OBJECTIVES The study explored the views of the ...

Within the framework of occupational prestige assessment, this survey was carried out amongst future physiotherapists in Australia to determine their perceived standing of physiotherapy relative to a range of occupations including several within the medical field. A questionnaire was administered to 258 undergraduate physiotherapy students. Twelve occupations were rated on six dimensions, ie le...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore areas of strength and weakness in the educational environment as perceived by undergraduate physiotherapy students and to investigate these areas in relation to the respondents' demographic characteristics. METHODS This study utilized a cross-sectional study design and employed the Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure, a 50-item, self-admin...

BACKGROUND Following reports of high prevalence of low back pain (LBP) in young physiotherapists, we investigated whether LBP was a problem for undergraduate physiotherapy students. METHOD Physiotherapy students enrolled in one Australian tertiary institution completed a validated self-administered questionnaire in April 2001, seeking information on LBP prevalence (lifetime, 12 month, one-mon...

OBJECTIVES In Poland, physiotherapy is offered at three types of school: medical universities, universities of physical education, and schools that do not specialise in either the medical sciences or physical education. This study explored the knowledge of students who were completing their physiotherapy studies about working in Poland and other countries of the European Union (EU), and about t...

Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 1 Ways of experiencing the patient encounter 2 ABSTRACT Background: The aim of the present paper is to describe and analyse the impact of